Performance evaluation of machine learning algorithms for urban pattern recognition from multi-spectral satellite images

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 2912-2939

  Wieland, Marc ^a   Pittore, Massimiliano ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data mining; Machine learning; Object based image analysis; Urban remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM'S PERFORMANCE; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; GENERALIZATION ABILITY; MULTISPECTRAL SATELLITE IMAGE; OBJECT BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION FRAMEWORKS; URBAN REMOTE SENSING;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA MINING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84898072545     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6042912     Document Type: Article

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